Showing posts with label wedding cakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wedding cakes. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Ideas for your Fall Wedding

Fall Wedding Ideas


When you have decided to go in for a fall wedding, you have to take up a planned approach to make it a spectacular event of your life. You can go in for some really interesting ideas such as the ones that would help you to plan out a spectacular fall wedding ceremony. You should try to keep the decoration for the wedding simple and unique for the desired results.


Some of the very important criteria which are considered for the information and ideas for fall wedding are listed below:


Themes: There are some popular themes for the wedding such as pumpkin theme or color themes which are opted for a fall wedding. Some of the popular color combinations which can be apt for these themes include purple, red, orange, yellow, or a combination of two or more colors among them. A unique choice would be including green color in the ceremony.


Favors: The favors should be relevant to the fall wedding theme. You can either purchase them or prepare on your own. Some good options include sweets, chocolates of various colors. Some couples go in for the accessories prepared from acorns, leaves, or wheat which resemble the new harvest as a favor. You can choose some unusual ones such as jams or sauce bottles as favors. Seasonal flowers are also a good choice.


Flowers: Flowers are used for the decoration as well as for the bride's bouquet. You have to go in for seasonal flowers which are available during the autumn season. This will help you to seek flowers at reasonable rates and would be easily available for the ceremony.


Centerpieces: You have to bring about some interesting centerpieces suitable for the fall wedding theme. Select the best one that would suit your requirements. You can go in for some stylish vases with seasonal flowers such as chrysanthemum and many other options.


Wedding cakes: Fall cakes in wedding ceremony are of prime importance for every wedding ceremony. You should scan through the different varieties of cakes that are available. Select the most appealing and yummy cake appropriate for the fall wedding theme.


The ideas mentioned here will assist you to bring about some interesting plans for the fall wedding.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Things to Consider if You're Planning a Christmas Wedding

Wedding Planning

Christmas is the time of year when everybody is in the celebratory mood. It is the best time to spend time together with your loved ones. However, you can avoid planning your wedding on the Christmas Day and plan out a destination weekend wedding instead. With this all your family members would be able to attend your wedding.


This will help you to celebrate Christmas Eve with your family members and later on go in for Destination wedding. It will help you to get the desired romantic setting for exchanging your vows and beginning your married life.


You have to consider some very important aspects for planning a Christmas Wedding. They are listed below:


  • The foremost aspect to be considered for the wedding planning with Christmas as the theme is to decide the budget for your wedding. Besides this, you have to also decide the date for the wedding and venue for the ceremony.

  • The next step after taking up this decision is to begin the planning process. For this you can either hire a planner or do it on your own.

  • Check out the possible locations which can be booked for organizing your reception ceremony and wedding party. This decision should be taken well in advance and book it to get the desired location.

  • The wedding invitations should be related to the Christmas theme. You can order it online or prepare it on your own.

  • The popular colors commonly considered for the Christmas themed wedding include black, white, bright red or silver colors. The decors, cakes, and favors could be either of these colors or combinations of these colors.

  • You can go in for the Christmas lightings and small pine trees resembling the Christmas tree for the purpose of decoration at the venue. Besides these, an excellent option could be to use ribbons, aromatic candles, or accessories in shape of Santa Claus.

  • The style and fabrics used for the wedding dress should match the winter season and Christmas theme. You can consult your planner to get the best deals and offers for the dresses.

  • For the gifts present for the wedding, you can arrange for some games and Christmas gifts for them. You can give the responsibility to your friend or a family member to dress up as Santa Claus and give these gifts to the children present for the ceremony.

  • The popular choices for the menu include hot chocolate, eggnog, Salmon Sandwiches, baked beans, Christmas cookies, gingerbread, and many other delicious treats garnished with plenty of nuts, almonds, chocolate chips, or cranberries.

  • You should not forget the most important aspect which is your wedding cakes in christmas. The wedding cake for Christmas theme could be perfect blend of Christmas theme and your personal likes at affordable rates.

You have to remember the important guidelines mentioned above for planning a Christmas Wedding.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Wedding Cake Advice




An important piece of advice for a wedding cake is to keep it at a central place in the hall and not in some corner. It should be the centre of attraction for the guests than anything else as it deserves all kinds of exclamations due to its flavor and decoration.


Any fantastic traditional wedding cakes are white with some decoration of fruits or flowers. However, it is a good idea to include other pastel shades in the cake like dusty pink, light blue or light gold and sage green. One more common design in a cake is a white lace of icing around the cake that resembles a bride's wedding gown.


Instead of a three tiered wedding cake you could go for a cupcake for each individual guest. You could have choice of 2-3 flavors of your choice like lemon, carrot, pineapple or chocolate. It is also a nice idea to serve your wedding cake on the pudding.


Especially in spring and summers using fruits in cake is a good option as plenty of fresh fruits are available and also the shelf life of the cake is much longer in this case. The cake remains fresh even after a long wedding day. A simple sponge cupcake could be appreciated by many people especially in summers. You could have a heavy dramatic and tasteful chocolate wedding cakes preferably if you have a winter wedding.


It is best to consult a professional confectioner for advice on your wedding cake. It is also a good idea to visit wedding exhibitions where these people exhibit their cake designs. Before you book a cake for your wedding make sure that your confectioner specializes in the kind of cake you want for your wedding. It is also a good idea to go by reference from any of your friends who know any confectioner well.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

How to choose royal couple their wedding & reception cakes






While you do planning your wedding want to please everyone. There are many family traditions and expectations and if it is a royal wedding the traditions and expectations are far more. Couples work to make this event as traditional, unique and personal as possible. Obviously, such is the case with Prince William and the bride to be Kate Middleton. A national celebration in the UK, the wedding is the knot that will be tied at the West minister Abbey. Details of the wedding cakes have recently been revealed for the people who crave for the tidbits of the royal wedding.

Keeping up with the British wedding tradition, the wedding cake will be a brandy fruit cake with candied and dried fruits and nuts. Fruit cake tastes better after a process of 4 weeks aging, the cake is already begun to bake by the chosen cake designer Fiona Cairns. Cairns has a bakery in the English countryside which makes 27,000 cakes a week and is known for her fruitcakes and for using ingredients that are true to the royal tradition. According to Cairns, the cake is many tiered and each tier flaunts a different theme. It will be decorated in cream and white tones and will be embellished with floral elements planned well in advance. She agreed that Kate the bride knew what she wanted. She had a few traditional ideas but with quite a modern twist.

Flowers decorated on the cake give a meaning to the occasion and are used in the architecture of Buckingham Palace. The flowers represent the countries of the UK, the Scottish thistle, English rose, Welsh daffodil and Irish shamrock. Other elements used on the cake are oak and acorn that stand for strength and endurance.

Prince William will set a new tradition by having a groom's cake which is quite unusual in the UK tradition. His cake is popularly called the "chocolate cookie cake", and is based on a royal recipe which is a secret.

The unbaked cake consists of 1700 McVities Rich Tea biscuits mixed with 17 kilo dark chocolate before it gets molded to multiple tiers and heaped and decorated with chocolate.

This wedding might set up new trends for royal wedding cakes and royal couples will start to have wedding plans differently.